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Hannay was born on February 17, 1827 in Dumfries, Scotland. His father, David Hannay (1794-1864), a member of the Speculative Society at Edinburgh University, 1813-1814, and author of Ned Allen, or the Past Age, 1849, was engaged in business in Dumfries.
Hannay entered the navy in 1840 and served till 1845, when he adopted literature as his profession.
Hannay acted as reporter on the Morning Chronicle and gradually obtained a connexion, writing for the quarterly and monthly journals. In 1857 Hannay contested the Dumfries burghs in the Conservative interest, but without success. He edited the Edinburgh Evening Courant from 1860 till 1864, when he removed to London. From 1868 till his death on the 8th of January 1873 he was British consul at Barcelona. His letters to the Pall Mall Gazette "From an Englishman in Spain" were highly appreciated. Hannay's best books are his two naval novels, Singleton Fontenoy (1-850) and Eustace Conyers (1855); Satire and Satirists (1854); and Essays from the Quarterly Review (1861). Satire not only shows loving appreciation of the great satirists of the past, but is itself instinct with wit and fine satiric power. The book sparkles with epigrams and apposite classical allusions, and contains admirable critical estimates of Horace (Hannay's favourite author), Juvenal, Erasmus, Sir David Lindsay, George Buchanan, Boileau, Butler, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Churchill, Burns, Byron and Moore.
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Hannay was twice married, first, in 1853, to Margaret Thompson, who died in 1865; and then, in 1868, to Jean Hannay, a lady of the same name, but of no traceable relationship, who died in Spain in 1870. He had by the first marriage six, and by the second one child, who survived him.
